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The story of Mathias Rust's flight from Helsinki to Moscow in 1987 is probably one of the strangest episodes of the Cold War. Twenty-five years ago Rust, a 19-year-old German with about 50 hours of ...

A video of the event is here (takes user to dropbox file). On May 28 in 1987, 18-year-old German amateur pilot Mathias Rust, from Schleswig-Holstein, had just 50 hours' flight experience when he ...

In May 1987, Mathias Rust, an amateur German pilot, flew a rented Cessna aircraft from Finland to Moscow, evading Soviet air defenses and improbably landing on Red Square near the Kremlin. Rust's ...

When Mathias Rust landed his white Cessna on Red Square on May 28, 1987, he had placed all his hopes for world peace in Mikhail Gorbachev. The 19-year-old amateur pilot from a well-to-do Hamburg ...

AS two-fingered gestures go, the 1987 flight of the young German Mathias Rust in a small plane through Soviet airspace - landing in Red Square - takes some beating. Artists Emma Rushton and Derek ...

Nikolai Malyshev/Alexander Konkov/TASS German amateur aviator Mathias Rust was arrested 10 minutes after touchdown On the evening of May 28, 1987 as the USSR celebrated Border Guard’s Day, a ...

Mathias Rust, the pilot known for his landing on Moscow’s Red Square, testified Monday in his attempted murder trial that the woman he allegedly stabbed had ridiculed his famous 1987 flight. Rust, 23, ...

Yitzhak Goldfine was the defender of billionaire fraudster Jürgen Schneider and of the pilot who illegally landed on the Red Square, Mathias Rust. His memoirs reveal new details on the cases. But are ...